Cananea, Mexico (CNN) -- In a remote town in northern Mexico, a 10-year-old-boy is struggling with his homework. His name is Oscar Castellanos, and the fifth-grader is getting extra help from his father because he's having trouble adjusting to his new school.

The student enrolled at Leona Vicario Elementary in the town of Cananea is technically a foreigner in his father's land. Oscar was born in Arizona and is a U.S. citizen. He recites the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance by memory without hesitation. His English accent is that of a boy raised in the American Southwest.

Oscar's family moved back to Mexico after the state of Arizona approved some of the toughest immigration laws in the United States. Now they live in Cananea, a mining town of 30,000, about 35 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border.

As far as the kind of treatment illegal immigrants from Mexico deserve, lets treat them as Mexico treats all immigrants. According to the Center for Security Policys J. Michael Waller, Mexico deals harshly not only with illegal immigrants. It treats even legal immigrants, naturalized citizens and foreign investors in ways that would, by the standards of those who carp about U.S. immigration policy, have to be called racist and xenophobic.

If you think these critics are mad about U.S. immigration policy now, imagine how upset they would be if we adopted an approach far more radical than the bill they rail against which was adopted last year by the House of Representatives - namely, the way Mexico treats illegal aliens.

For example, according to an official translation published by the Organization of American States, the Mexican constitution includes the following restrictions:

Pursuant to Article 33, “Foreigners may not in any way participate in the political affairs of the country.”

Equal employment rights are denied to immigrants, even legal ones. Article 32: “Mexicans shall have priority over foreigners under equality of circumstances for all classes of concessions and for all employment, positions, or commissions of the Government in which the status of citizenship is not indispensable.”

Jobs for which Mexican citizenship is considered “indispensable” include, pursuant to Article 32, bans on foreigners, immigrants, and even naturalized citizens of Mexico serving as military officers, Mexican-flagged ship and airline crew, and chiefs of seaports and airports.

Article 55 denies immigrants the right to become federal lawmakers. A Mexican congressman or senator must be “a Mexican citizen by birth.”

Article 91 further stipulates that immigrants may never aspire to become cabinet officers as they are required to be Mexican by birth. Article 95 says the same about Supreme Court justices.

In accordance with Article 130, immigrants - even legal ones - may not become members of the clergy, either.

Article 27 states, “Only Mexicans by birth or naturalization and Mexican companies have the right to acquire ownership of lands, waters, and their appurtenances, or to obtain concessions for the exploitation of mines or of waters.”

Article 11 guarantees federal protection against “undesirable aliens resident in the country.” What is more, private individuals are authorized to make citizen’s arrests.

Article 16 states, “In cases of flagrante delicto, any person may arrest the offender and his accomplices, turning them over without delay to the nearest authorities.”

According to Article 33, “the Federal Executive shall have the exclusive power to compel any foreigner whose remaining he may deem inexpedient to abandon the national territory immediately and without the necessity of previous legal action.”

I read that in 2005 Mexico deported over 240,000 illegal immigrants. I wonder how many we deported?

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posted on 11/26/2012 8:22:56 PM PST
by TurboZamboni
(Looting the future to bribe the present)

It sounds as though the Mexican Nationals don’t like our laws and want Barry Benghazi to “reform” them to make it easier for them to invade and overrun America. I don’t think we’re in America anymore, Toto.

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posted on 11/26/2012 9:29:01 PM PST
by FlingWingFlyer
(Criminal defense lawyers won't have the Twinkie to kick around anymore.)

I don't care why they're leaving, just leave. Saves us the trouble and expense of hunting them down and deporting them. If you're here legally, welcome. If you're here illegally, you're a criminal, we're coming for you to prosecute you. That's not persecution. This has nothing to do with race, religion etc. It is all about legal status - they are breaking the law. Period.

Of course; they need to lull Americans into complacency as their country is stolen from them. If there was anything to this story Obama wouldn’t have won re-election; the fact is that the Bronze Horde is here to stay, and for every one that goes back 1,000 more arrive (or are born in this country as anchor babies).

I know a woman who has been working in this country since 2000 on a green card.
She has followed the rules - she has paid taxes.
She even has given birth to a us citizen.

She works hard and is a source of pride to her employer.

She has just been denied citizenship and is now wondering what her next step will be.

Factors working against her....she is white and comes from a n eastern european country.

So here we have a person trying her best to satisfy the “path to citizenship” - while millions of latinos waltz in to the US feeling entitled to our taxpayer funded benefits without paying into the system themselves.

Also, it says they left everything behind. And they had a three bedroom home. So they got a home loan for illegals! Then, sounds like they got foreclosed on. I can’t believe they walked away without selling a house in which the SHOULD have had equity.

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